He did his SSLC from Vijaya High School, Jayanagar, Bangalore and Pre-University in Science, from National College (Basavanagudi), Bangalore. He did his B.Tech (Electronics) from Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and MS and PhD (Computer Science), Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Career
He became a Research Fellow in Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland (College Park). He later became the chairman of CSA department at Indian Institute of Science.
Professional activities
Program Co-Chair, 42nd Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2016, New Delhi, India
Program Co-Chair, 26th Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Los Angeles, USA
Tutorial Co-Chair, 19th Intl. World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2010, Raleigh, USA
Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Springer
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases(JDPD), Springer
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Real-Time Systems (JRTS), Springer